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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Remembering Mary Konior

Although I have been a citizen of Tat-land for just over a year, and my shuttles are newish, I have all of Mary Konior's books. I was influenced by her work from the start and have read those books over and over again. Such a wellspring of inspiration.

With her life in my mind, I tatted up one of her patterns using Yarnplayer's Garden Afternoon and Cébélia #20 in green. Her considerable talent may have been in my thoughts, but there was a sorry lack of proficiency in my fingers! There was a lot of retro-tatting, cursing, missed beads and foul language - you know what I mean!

The end result looks pretty, but is full of errors and alas, lacks finesse. All of that aside, the design is so very lovely; so ... Mary Konior,

10 comments:

I feel the same way. I feel the Tatting world will miss Mary. Like you I have her books and don't feel I really do justice to the patterns like I should. But it gives us something to strive for! Your motiffs look great to me. Loverly colors.

Hi Fox!I think your tribute piece is very pretty! The colors are so vibrant and are a great choice for one of Mary Konior's deceptively simple looking patterns. Her patterns are so streamlined that they appear easy when in fact I think they may be harder because I have found there is no place to hide. I've had a couple unsuccessful runs - so short they weren't even worth posting about.

The one piece I have made (you know the one) is the first piece of tatting I have done that my teenage daughter really liked. She thought it was pretty and said she got why I liked tatting, finally. I don't think it was because I tatted it well or even the color - I know it was solely because of the beauty of Mary Konior's pattern - so simple, so elegant, so perfect...:) Ann